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The LSU department of French Studies is proud to present the Library of Glissant Studies.
With the help of scholars, students and readers all over the world, this open access
bibliographic tool aims to index the oeuvre of Edouard Glissant (and its translations)
as well as works about Édouard Glissant in every language.

Welcome to the Department of French Studies!

The Department of French Studies works together with the Center for French and Francophone
Studies, an independent but closely allied unit, to put the Louisiana State University
French program at the forefront of study of French and Francophone literatures, language,
and cultures. In recognition of this, the French Embassy to the United States has
designated the CFFS as a centre d'excellence, an honor given to only 15 university French programs in the United States. Our research,
scholarship, and instruction reflect the historical significance of Francophone languages
and cultures for Louisiana, as well as the leadership provided by French studies in
the European intellectual tradition. Louisiana State University, an integral part
of the Baton Rouge community, is situated at the crossroads of the Francophone world;
our Cajun and Creole history links us to France, to Canada, to Africa, and to the
Caribbean.

We offer an extensive range of undergraduate and graduate courses covering the entire
history of metropolitan French literature and culture, from medieval epic to contemporary
prose, poetry, philosophy, theater, and film, in addition to courses covering Francophone
literatures and cultures of North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Asia,
and North America, including both Quebec and Louisiana. A wide range of theoretical
perspectives are represented in the teaching and research interests of the faculty,
fostering the interdisciplinary study of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism,
gender theory, semiotics, post-structuralism, and the visual arts. Our linguistics
faculty members offer courses and conduct research in phonetics, discourse analysis,
sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, second-language acquisition, and Louisiana
variations of French and English.

The French language and culture, in both its Cajun and Creole aspects, is central
to the life of Louisiana. Our program is committed to increasing public awareness
and appreciation of our state’s French and Francophone heritage in four primary ways:
1) by the Center for French and Francophone Studies, which supports international
scholars working with the extensive holdings of the Hill Memorial Library, and sponsors
international and bilingual colloquia on Franco-Louisiana history; 2) by the National
Science Foundation-funded research of Sylvie Dubois and her team of graduate students,
who have developed a massive computerized database of Cajun French; 3) by our online
journal, edited by Alexandre Leupin, Mondes Francophones; and 4) by offering an undergraduate Cajun Studies program leading to a minor in
Cajun French.

The program offers student and faculty exchange programs with the Université de Poitiers,
the Université de Limoges, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and the Aix-Marseille
Université. We attract a nationally and internationally diverse student body, with
recent students from France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria, Ivory
Coast, Gabon, and Canada, as well as from across the United States.